This 9th grade unit on collage began with discussions about the role of artists in traditional and contemporary societies, and how that varied across cultures and medium. Its musicians and writers, not visual artists, who traditionally make social commentary in cultures of that have a large Islamic population. So, I introduced ways that visual artists have made commentary on religion, politics, government and society through out Western history since the 13,000.

AIS 9th and 10th Grade Drawing. This 9th grade drawing unit began by the students practicing the basics of drawing. They reviewed how to draw patterns, shads and textures. They were also introduced to illustration styles from a variety of cultures and time periods. After a week they were asked to use. Instead of line to delineate shapes, then create an image that hid another image in such a way as to illustrate an idea. Shading, texture and pattern.

This 10th -12th year art students chose perspective drawing as one of their units because none of them had drawn in perspective before. The unit began with a history of illusion space from ancient Egypt through to photo-realism as well as the math and geometry used in perspective drawing. Post-Modernism is about taking historical images or reference out of context and. Only at the superficial level, then combining those superficial references with other superficial.

Fashion Design had never been offered at AIS before, and despite having no sewing machines, dress forms, instruction books or fabric, the class was enthusiastically embraced. The students were very fashion conscious, yet the idea of creating their own clothing was foreign.